Pont de Neuilly

…was also aesthetically pleasing; Perronet’s Pont de Neuilly has been called the most graceful stone bridge ever built. He was 80 years old when he began the Pont de la Concorde, originally called the Pont Louis XV, in 1787. Despite the outbreak of the French Revolution, he kept the work…

His works included the Pont de Neuilly (1774), over the Seine, the Pont Sainte-Maxence (1785), over the Oise, and the beautiful Pont de la Concorde (1791), also over the Seine. In Great Britain, William Edwards built what many people consider the most beautiful arch bridge in the British

The 18th-century Pont de Neuilly, which bridges the avenue over the Seine River at the suburb’s western border, is regarded as an outstanding piece of engineering; it was rebuilt and widened to 115 feet (35 meters) in 1935–40. Apart from its residential function, Neuilly is also an…